Anno Domini 1237.
Europe and Asia are plunged into the abyss of bloody war. Christians wage war with Muslims and heathens. Catholics battle with orthodoxies. Orthodoxies kill each other.
Brother against brother, and son against father.
From the West, Teutonic Knights have come crusading against heathen and orthodox Slavs, to turn them into the Latin faith. Knight-brothers have already consolidated in Baltic and now look further to the East, where, boundless and rich, Rus lies.
Poland, torn apart with inner contradictions, tries to deter the approaching Order Komturias, already settled firmly on the right bank of Vistula.
But upon all European nations hovers another, imminent threat. From the Far East comes Batu-Khan - the ambitious grandson of the great conqueror of nations, Genghis Khan. Furious hordes sweep across the Great Steppe and the land of Rus, aiming for the West, aiming for the Last Sea, laying one nations under tribute and mercilessly exterminating others. They are determined to fulfil the holy will of the Khan, and it seems that there is no force in the world that can stop them.

The historic mod "Rus - 13 century" reconstructs the events of this dramatic and heroic age. You can unite the forces of Russian princedoms and give battle to the Horde, or gather the Novgorod militia and warmly greet the Order knights on the ice and snow of the northern lands. You can feel yourself a warrior of the Horde, a vassal of the Teutonic Landmeister, or become a proud shlachta and fight for the glory of Kingdom of Poland.

Installing:

It is highly recommended to uninstall mod previous version(s) before installing .620!

1) Run .exe
2) Follow instructions

ATTENTION!!! YOU MUST CHOOSE 'MOUNT&BLADE' FOLDER AS DESTINATION PATH, NOT 'MODULES' FOLDER!!!Key features:
("b" stands for feature which is partially or fully implemented in beta, "f" stands for further versions)

Player can control his character while minimap is open. Terrain showing on minimap. OPTIONAL FEATURES

Combat continues after Player has been knocked unconscious. Player can observe battlefield in free-fly mode. OPTIONAL FEATURES

Ability to open Character/Party/Inventory menus in all "combat" menus (by using hotkeys)

Player can recruit troops only in fiefs of faction he belongs to. Player-mercenary can hire anywhere he’d like. Mercs can be hired freely. Positive relations with fiefs and their owners are required. Elite troops can only be hired in Player’s own castle.

Player can split his party into smaller groups with NPCs as commanders (only if player leads more than 20 men)

There’re much more various citizens in towns

New icons on minimap for traders/mayors/owners in towns

Character creating wizard reworked due to background story

Brief historical info about troops through dialog with them. Info about items in inventory. OPTIONAL FEATURES

Prisoners can be sold in mines or to the slave trader in Cherson or to ally and enemy lords by flexible rates (while being at towns). Also Player can give prisoners to lords for free in exchange of increased personal relationship. Prisoners’ cost depends on their level and the main party trading skill

Trade routs. Special caravans travelling on historical trade routs

Maximum amount of prisoners increased. The more prisoners are in the party the more of them would escape at night

Decreased structure building time in fiefs

Player can initiate dialog with city/village administration through center menu

Party salary displays week cost for all Player’s troops including garrisoned ones or under NPCs’ control

Lords intercept hostile parties travelling near their fiefs if they’re stronger (hostile party must be spotted first - chances depends on party size)

AI party strength and upgrade speed depends on player's level

Professional and Elite units can be upgraded only in their faction's cities. Player can’t upgrade them in the field

Helmets obscure field of view in first person view. OPTIONAL FEATURE

Food stores in castles decreased, recovery time increased.

Wounded units move slower in battle

Player can give some orders to his party right before fight such as hold ground, charge, follow leader, line up in different forms

Alcoholic drinks are all consumable and give morale bonus if any other kind of food is present in inventory or morale penalty otherwise

Special thanks to:Barf for new face meshesBasennik for Russian warcriesCheckmaty for More Metal SoundChel for his morale systemdreammora for original game localizationdstemmer for his fast scene chooserHokieBT for UpdateModulePartiesIn Vain for German warcriesJanus for his installer script (used in 0.401 beta)JoG for beta-testing and PRmtarini for openBrfSiegbert_von_Meklenburg for German warcriesSer Ge Nuk for quest ideasСергиоОбрегон for musicThorgrim for MapEditor & brf-editToFik for quest ideasWinter for his moded operationsyart for helping with beta-testyellowmosquito for Mount & Blade Banner and Flag Standardization PackYoshiboy for his tutorials

all users of rusmnb.ru for their help and support
our families and friends for understanding and patienceArmagan and TaleWorlds for the best medieval Action/RPG and great development tools.

This is so far the mod where i would say, they have put their ass into it!
Great great work, its all new, u could almost say its a whole new game.
If you like huge battles, this would serve you.
Precise historical correct equipment for each faction.
For me, i dont have the nerves to conquer back one single castle over and over (they quickly retake all you have conquered or you faction conquered and only move in masses).
A bit anoying is that each factions troops are named in their own language, so it takes some time untill you can recognise weak and strong troops of your enemys party to know if to attack with an outnumbred party or to run but still great work, best i have seen so far !!

Registered just to say this. I was interested in this mod too until I saw the end were you can't install it as a module. I don't know if there is a good reason for the way they went about it but is it something that could be handled with Iron launcher?

Hey man, great mod, the best I've ever seen. I've only have two questions:
1.:The main titles for example on the user interface at the strategy map mode, are russian. Is that normal?
2.:How and where can I train professional troops?

awesome mod liking the new text and the battles at the beginning which you can never win loving every second of it although in your next release try and put in a kingdom management option cus when i first created my character i conquered the lithuanians and my faction name was lithuanian rebels

This is a great idea and mod, though needs some fixing:
1. Let you begin with armor and weapons at start of adventure ( some dont do this, such as Russian Hunter)
2. I tried to enter Kiev, but it crashed and said cannot restore vertex buffer or somethin. Needs to be fixed
3. When playing as Mongolian Noble, you begin the battle with no torso armor. Needs to be fixed, as you get massacared.
4. Make it so that the AI gets off the horse instead of riding it up ramps, as this is slow and very stupid, as they are then arrow fodder.
5.I do agree that the Fjords are very clumsy and should get replaced with bridges, at least wood or somthin.

Thaty is all I have at the moment, also I cant find Lithuania, and I cant recruit from villages.Also I tried to get a job from a Town Master or whatever, and it wouldnt let me finish the conversation, and I had to restart my comp.

hey i just have a simple question... i cant seem to get the game to run.. i mean when i want to install it and its finish and i start M&B the game is not there.... pleasee help... i have other mods and they have worked fine.. i also had the russian 4.6 i beleve it was.... so please any help would be greatyly appretiated and thank you

i got i little problem with zhan ma dao, the samurai sword.(i know there isnt too much 2 handed swords in this mod but i fpund 1!) it seems you change the way they hold 2 handed weapons. its like holding a polearm/spear. its kinda awkward when your running and your left hand is holding the blade. my suggestion is make it a 1hand/2hand weapon. i change mine using item editor and tweak a bit of the other items :p.

and also the new arrows djebe? i forgot the name but the new 2 quivers are kinda like wierd where they are located.

I also have some problems. I got many crashes (or CTDs) and they happened randomly; when i was talking to someone, when i was leaving a village or a town, when i was starting a battle....this gets pretty annoying.

Also there's something I might not have seen, but could someone tell me if there are any two handed swords???

And yeah, one last annoying thing; there is waaayyyy too many looters/deserters neart the city of Yatch (of the Rus). At the beginning of the game, if I'd go there, i'd always be captured i just couldn't avoid them!!

hey i downloaded it and installed it correctly but when i uninstalled it
i tried to load up m&b but it won't load i then checked my folders and a s*** load of files where deleted now im having to completely reinstall m&b 1.011